Blitz Wolf (1942)

Directed by

Tex Avery

Genre

comedy film, propaganda film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated short uses the Three Little Pigs story to make fun of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Two pigs build a strong house to protect themselves, while a third pig refuses to help. The wolf tries to blow down their house, but the pigs fight back.

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What happens

Blitz Wolf is a 1942 American animated propaganda short film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A parody of the Three Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by Tex Avery (in his first cartoon for MGM) and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons but lost to Der Fuehrer's Face, another anti-Nazi World War II parody featuring Donald Duck. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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